Not too often do the words "rich" and "coon" mesh well together but when combined with a backyard shooting blind and a .22 caliber of personal choice ie .22 short, LR, magnum, 22-250 or .223, one can be the "calibrated" gentry that one knows he is...even if one requires glasses to shoot.
I decided to take up position early today given the mixed bag of weather. With it being a mostly rainy day with few sunny breaks and daylight dwindling earlier every day raccoons start to roam into my area around about an hour before dark. It isn't uncommon to have them in the cross hairs earlier though given their scrambling for as many year end feasts as possible.
As of this posting I'm in position armed with a bolt action .22 Marlin loaded with CCI shorts, very quiet and lethal within 100ft, last night at just before dark (19.00hrs) I popped off two coons at 110ft, both rnds were planted between right side neck and shoulder with angle of trajectory upwards at about 3°...I took out the 1st one as it sat motionless surveying the area and while it chimped out on it's nerves his buddy had to investigate as to what the commotion was and I nailed it while it was on the move...that fucker screeched and rolled like a drunken jew in public shower stall after hearing the word gas mentioned by a White guy.
Well that's about all I wanted to share with everyone right now, my bears are really lethargic and aren't as fun this time of the year because they're getting ready to crash for the winter, I can't get them to do anything so I made it clear to them that I'm going to be shooting coons this evening and they'll have to wait for their treats of honey and Nutella, they didn't seem to have a problem with that as was obvious in the way they never even lifted their heads from the horizontal position.
Actually that's exactly the pose they take the moment the rnd makes impact, I've seen coons freeze in this position for a few seconds before they chimp out flailing all over the place...but when a rnd enters the lung just underneath the armpit area it goes right through leaving pink chunks everywhere.
No coon hounds, that's a different game...I just have to set up in the backyard a short distance from the bush line and wait...I've no problems killing these pests, they're a fucking nuisance.
[ - ] I_am_baal 1 point 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 21:06:23 ago (+1/-0)
I had some deer wander through my yard the other day. Those fuckers keep trying to kill themselves on my car, and they look tasty. I didn't manage to grab my shotgun fast enough, but I'm gonna get me some back yard venison one of these days. I'm pretty sure those fuckers are half the reason I had to fence in my garden.
[ + ] Zyklonbeekeeper
[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper [op] 0 points 2.6 yearsOct 16, 2022 01:20:47 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 22:24:48 ago (+0/-0)
I wish I could do that to the vermin in my area. ALL the vermin.
I mean... more openly.
[ + ] NaturalSelectionistWorker
[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 2 points 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 21:29:34 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 22:28:28 ago (+1/-0)
Still good nixing vermin of any sort.
[ + ] diggernicks
[ - ] diggernicks 0 points 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 20:56:39 ago (+0/-0)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zTv9AhCuSU4
[ + ] Deleted
[ - ] deleted -2 points 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 17:23:07 ago (+0/-2)
[ + ] Zyklonbeekeeper
[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper [op] 3 points 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 18:34:35 ago (+3/-0)
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 22:30:46 ago (+1/-0)
You still don't want them in your house.
[ + ] PostWallHelena
[ - ] PostWallHelena 2 points 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 17:19:59 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] Zyklonbeekeeper
[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper [op] 4 points 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 17:30:03 ago (+4/-0)
[ + ] I_am_baal
[ - ] I_am_baal 1 point 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 21:06:23 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] con77
[ - ] con77 2 points 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 17:12:18 ago (+2/-0)
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[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 22:27:17 ago (+0/-0)
It would also look exceptionally cool. Skunks LOOK awesome. Shame they're such assholes.
[ + ] Deleted
[ - ] deleted 1 point 2.6 yearsOct 22, 2022 19:16:45 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 22:27:45 ago (+0/-0)
It would also look exceptionally cool. Skunks LOOK awesome. Shame they're such assholes.
[ + ] Spaceman84
[ - ] Spaceman84 1 point 2.6 yearsOct 15, 2022 17:05:45 ago (+3/-2)